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...Rating on Singapore's Pollution Standards Index on Oct. 7, the highest level recorded this year, as soot and haze from Indonesia's seasonal brush fires spread across Southeast Asia 100 Score above which the Singapore government says it is "unhealthy" to be outside...
...throwback: Honda's clean diesel car engine. Diesel is the choice of fuel-guzzling 18-wheelers, but it burns as much as 30% more efficiently than gasoline. It's also dirtier. But last month Honda unveiled an engine that uses a new catalytic converter to block pollutants like soot and nitrogen oxide, a greenhouse gas. Honda says the engine, which it expects to market in the U.S. by 2009, will meet California's new emission regulations, the toughest in the world. That could translate to a competitive advantage, since big states like California can shape the global market...
...pollution output hour to hour rather than year to year, because the hourly standard often produces a lower, less accurate reading of emissions. In November the U.S. Supreme Court will address the same measurement question in a case out of North Carolina. All those battles technically address smog and soot, not mercury, but where the first two go, the third follows. "Power plants are the 800-lb. gorilla," says John Walke, a project director with the Natural Resource Defense Council and a former attorney for the EPA. "Their [mercury] output is extraordinary...
...near Marina del Rey, Calif.--McLoughlin, who had 30 surgeries that left braces on his legs and an open wound on his left hip, stayed away from the 65-ft. mound of Styrofoam beams and cargo boxes meant to represent ground zero. "I hate getting upset," he says. As soot-covered extras in police and military uniforms milled around, Jimeno was reduced to tears by the sight of the too-lifelike rubble pile. "I survived for a reason," he says. "We, as a country, have a short attention span. We don't want people to forget those who died...
...dentistry to dialysis. The school district in Mission, Texas, among the state's poorest, sends its old furniture over the border to help Mexican schools that are lucky to have a roof, much less desks and chairs. El Paso is redesigning the kilns of Juarez brickmakers to cut the soot from burning old tires; the twin cities have signed more treaties than their national governments can keep track of, let alone ratify. "The only way the cities in this region can make it," says Juarez mayor Gustavo Elizondo, "is to forget that a line and a river exist here...